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those monuments are the works of Scandinavian nations, 

 who, from the llth to the 14th century visited the coast of 

 Greenland, Newfoundland, or Vinland, or Drogeo, and a 

 part of the continent of North America. (View of the Cor- 

 dilleras, Vol. i. p. 85.) If this hypothesis be founded, the 

 skulls found in the tumuli, and of which Mr. Atwater, at Cir- 

 cleville, possesses so great a number, ought to belong not to 

 the American, Mongul, or Malay race, but to a race vulgarly 

 called Caucasian. The engraving of those skulls, in the 

 Memoirs of the Society of Massachusetts, is too imperfect to 

 decide an historical question so well worthy to occupy the 

 osteologists of both continents. Let us hope that the 

 learned men who now honor the United States, will hasten 

 to convey the skeletons of the tumuli, and those of the 

 caverns, to Europe, that they may be compared together, and 

 with the present inhabitants of native race, as well as with 

 the individuals of Malay, Mongul, and Caucasian race; found 

 in the great collections of MM.Cuvier, Sommering, and 

 Blumenbach. In order to advance in these kinds of researches, 

 so important towards the history of the human species, it 

 appears to me that the attention should be directed to three 

 principal points ; namely, 1st. To the osteologic compari- 

 sons, which cannot be made successfully from drawings, 

 descriptions, or the mere testimony of travellers. The skulls 

 of the ancient inhabitants (of that race believed to be ex- 

 tinct), must be compared with the skulls of the different 

 varieties of the human race ; and we must not forget in this 

 comparison, that among the present natives of the new con- 

 tinent some tribes furnish very remarkable varieties of con- 

 formation. It may suffice to cite the Tchougaze Esquimaux 

 in the north, whose children are born white ; and more to 

 the south, the Chepewyans, the Panis (Apaches) and the 

 Sioux ; three nations, which from their traditions and their 

 aspect, Mackenzie, Pike and Lewis, consider as having come 

 from Asia, and being strongly mungolized. (Mackenzie, See 



